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November 17, 2023

Unmasking gender disparities in Indian sanitation

Women's struggle for sanitation equity in rural areas and urban slums India

A training exercise on water and sanitation, as part of an EU-funded project on integrated water resource management in Rajasthan. (Image: UN Women Asia and Pacific; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 DEED)

October 20, 2023

Building community expertise in planning, designing, and overseeing WASH systems

A holistic approach to Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiatives

Shantilata uses a cloth to filter out the high iron content in the salty water, filled from a hand pump, in the village Sitapur on the outskirts of Bhadrak, Bhubaneshwar, Odisha (Image: WaterAid/ Anindito Mukherjee)

July 12, 2023

Saamuhika Shakti: Empowering Bangalore waste pickers to live dignified lives

A collective impact effort, the first of its type in India that provides informal waste pickers a chance to live safe and dignified lives, with particular emphasis on gender and equity.

Waste pickers and sorters working hard to extract recyclable value from the waste we throw out (Image: Vinod Sebastian/ Saamuhika Shakti)

February 7, 2023

Budget 2023-24: Drinking water supply and sanitation continues to get priority

Budgetary allocations for urban sanitation get an impetus, but Swachh Bharat Mission – Rural (SBM-R) records no change in its budgetary allocation

An amount of Rs 1840 crore has been approved to effecvely implement Water Security Plans through convergence of ongoing/new schemes (Image: Pavitra K B Rao, Wikimedia Commons)

December 13, 2022

Mobilising communities for WASH

WaterAid India’s partnership with USAID and Gap Inc. benefits 2400 villages across 7 districts of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra

WaterAid has focused on establishing community-led water quality monitoring &amp; surveillance (Image: Anil Gulati/India Water Portal Flickr)

September 27, 2022

Dirty drains drain health

This study found that the sanitary quality of neighbourhood drains, in addition to toilets, affected sanitation and hygiene and incidences of ill-health in rural households.

Dirty drainages, harbingers of illhealth. Image for representation only (Image Source: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons)

कंपोस्ट शौचालयों में नए आविष्कार

Posted on 26 Nov, 2014 01:24 PM

ओलीवर बाल्च

काठमांडू- स्थित गृहयेश्वरी तथा पशुपतिनाथ-मंदिर-परिसर में प्रतिवर्ष लाखों श्रद्धालु दर्शन के लिए आते हैं। यहां आनेवालों में अधिकतर आत्मिक शांति के लिए आते हैं। कुछ पर्यटन के इरादे से पहुंचते हैं। कोई किसी भी इरादे से जाए, उन सभी में एक बात समान है-किसी-न-किसी स्थिति में उन सभी को शौचालय के प्रयोग की आवश्यकता जरूर पड़ती है।

शुचिता- अन्तः और बाह्य

Posted on 25 Nov, 2014 10:14 AM

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Toilets and social networks: Is there a connection?

Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Of late, there have been plenty of discussions around the topic of sanitation, which have focussed on building toilets on a massive scale.

It's not just about rape

It is time we realise that sanitation is not just a development target that can be achieved by increasing the number of toilets. It is a reflection of how we view ourselves, both men and women, as equal members of society.

Aarti Kelkar Khambete

Posted on 22 Nov, 2014 10:30 AM

Nandatai and her 16 year old daughter Phula creep out of their houses quietly in the wee hours of the morning into the dark fields to relieve themselves before everyone wakes up. It is an everyday story as this is the only time in the day that they have privacy. “It is so shameful to go out in the fields during the day”, says Nandatai. “We have to hold our urine till it gets dark.